19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
One of the things that I've been trying to promote as well—. We have people on waiting lists. They're looking for something from us there. That's an opportunity for us to have a conversation with them about, 'This is a relationship here, so we can offer you…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
You could see that, for example, during COVID—how many people were in hospital and how many people died before vaccination was rolled out. Once the vaccination programme was rolled out, you had a massive decline in the number of people who went into hospital…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
We know that GPs are under incredible strain at the moment. They see 1.5 million people a month—I think that's the figure. It is quite remarkable. And they get about eight minutes, on average, per patient. This is an intensity that you can't imagine. So, I…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
I'm going to ask Heather, if you don't mind, to address this.
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
I think we definitely are. I think we learned a hell of a lot during the pandemic about how to reach out to those communities that were perhaps not coming forward for vaccination. We've been able to learn a lot from that: how do you do that outreach, how do…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
This was something that fell out of the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017. We're going to have these health impact assessments. They haven't actually started yet. They've been out to consultation, they are about to be introduced, and, obviously, that then will…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
Thanks very much. Well, obviously what we have is a situation where we've got to get into the preventative space, so, as I've said, I've got this obesity mission that I'm trying to push on. You've already heard the fact that, actually, a huge amount of work…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
I think we've got to be driven by the evidence on that, so I'd need to look at advice on how frequently they need that kind of thing. I wouldn't want to sign up to that without further evidence that it would be exactly what has worked elsewhere, for example…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
Yes, I think that that cross-over does happen. It probably, again, is different in different parts of Wales, but there does need to be that cross-over. It’s absolutely essential. It's GPs who generally do that. It's that whole-person approach that is…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
Which is why we've got this framework, because one of the key issues for me is that there are these pockets where it's working brilliantly, but one of the concerns, I think, was how do you make sure that there's a quality standard around it? How can GPs have…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
I think one of the great things that we do is to use the third sector in this space as well. I think they do an incredible job in giving support, in particular that mental health support. When you think about cancer, a lot of people have cancer, and think…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
Thank you. In a lot of our quality statements, there are sections that address the issue of the need for that person-centred approach, and, obviously, mental health becomes an important part of that. We've done a huge amount of work in relation to mental…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
Wel, mae'n rhaid ichi gofio bod lot o raglenni peilot hefyd yn methu, neu dŷn nhw ddim, efallai, yn cael y canlyniadau rŷn ni'n disgwyl. Felly, mae'n rili diddorol, er enghraifft, os ydych chi'n edrych y tu mewn i'r byrddau partneriaeth rhanbarthol, y syniad…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
Diolch yn fawr. Yn sicr, un o'r pethau sydd gyda ni erbyn heddiw yw'r quality statements yma, lle rŷn ni'n egluro 'what "good" looks like'. Mae hwnna'n hollbwysig. Wedyn, rôl yr NHS executive yw sicrhau bod hynny'n cael ei gario allan. Yr wythnos diwethaf…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
Absolutely. So, as I say, we're in the process of developing a comprehensive digital care record, but I'm going to ask Stuart, if you don't mind, to come in on this.
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
We haven't got a good track record not just in Wales, but across the UK in terms of digital roll-out. I mean, they've literally wasted billions in England; we’re certainly not in the billions here in Wales. We're getting there; it takes a long time. I think…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
So, we've got a really comprehensive digital transformation programme. It's very ambitious. The key thing is that we need all of our systems to speak to each other, but we already have quite a lot in place. So, we have, for example, the Welsh clinical portal…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
Of course we should. What we know is, if you look at health, about 20 per cent of it can be managed through the NHS itself, but about 80 per cent of it is due to the conditions that people live and work in. So, obviously, there is a cross-Government approach…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
Yes, absolutely right. There are ways of changing people's behaviours. You can do it through contract management, and that's what we've done through the contract. We've done it not just in terms of access now, because that's made a huge difference, and the…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
Great. I'm going to bring Stuart in in a second, but one of the things that HEIW have done is to make sure that they're taking steps to make sure that registrars in medical specialities are dual accredited in general internal medicine in addition to their…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
Yes.
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
I think we have, and where we have intervened—. And when I say 'we', I mean across the UK, so we've got to be really careful, because, obviously, some of these powers we have and some of them we don't. So, when the sugar tax was introduced, it made a huge…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
The balance is shifting. So, one of the things that I've been clear with my officials—. I choose about five things that I'm going to focus on when I become health Minister, because you can't do everything. One of them is a mission approach to tackling…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
Jest ar yr AHPs, rŷm ni wedi buddsoddi £5 miliwn yn ychwanegol i sicrhau bod mwy o AHPs yn cael eu recriwtio. Mae hwnna yn gwneud gwahaniaeth mawr. Fe wnes i gwrdd â lot o occupational therapists ddoe oedd yn dweud faint o wahaniaeth mae'r buddsoddiad yna…
19 Mehefin 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cefnogi pobl sydd â chyflyrau cronig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
Good. [Laughter.]
